The situation in the Donbas conflict zone has worsened: the illegal armed groups increased the number of attacks, using mortars with increased intensity, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook early Tuesday.

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In addition to 120mm mortars, the enemy fired self-propelled artillery on the Ukrainian fortified positions in the village of Zaitseve.

The militants also fired mortars on ATO positions near the villages of Kominternove, Hnutove, Shyrokyne, Mayorsk, and the towns of Krasnohorivka and Maryinka.

"Military clashes with the militants' sabotage and reconnaissance groups took place not far from the villages of Mykolaivka and Novotroyitske," the report says.